Pelosi team tries to steer Democrats to the center
The headline to this Boston Globe article reads, "Pelosi team tries to steer Democrats to the center". The article explains that Pelosi is "anxious to chart a centrist course with Democrats' new majority in Congress" and that she want to "rein in" her party's more progressive elements.
Some on the left have argued that the Democrats have to be supported despite their ruling class orientation because third parties don't work and because the first priority is to "stop Bush" at all costs. The theory behind this kind of lesser evilism is that we deal with the immediate danger first, then then worry about moving the country to the left at some point in the far off future. I do have to wonder at what future point anyone thinks the Democrats are going to take this magical, sudden turn to the left that keeps getting promised to us.
Some on the left have argued that the Democrats have to be supported despite their ruling class orientation because third parties don't work and because the first priority is to "stop Bush" at all costs. The theory behind this kind of lesser evilism is that we deal with the immediate danger first, then then worry about moving the country to the left at some point in the far off future. I do have to wonder at what future point anyone thinks the Democrats are going to take this magical, sudden turn to the left that keeps getting promised to us.
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